Kim Jong Un: 'I fed my traitorous uncle to 120 starving dogs'

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (far right) is pictured with his uncle Jang Song Thaek (far left) in this Sept. 2013 photo. Jong reportedly fed his uncle to dogs.

Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s wonky Supreme Leader, has allegedly been boasting lately about the execution of a so-called rebellious uncle, telling the world that he did away with his foe in a most gruesome manner – throwing his naked body to a pack of over 100 ravenous dogs.

The story originally surfaced from the Singaporean Straits Times, which was covering the story secondhand from Chinese media reports. Jong’s uncle, Jang Song Thaek, was reportedly the second in command of the communist North.

“Unlike previous executions of political prisoners which were carried out by firing squads with machine guns, Jang was stripped naked and thrown into a cage, along with his five closest aides. Then 120 hounds, starved for three days, were allowed to prey on them until they were completely eaten up. This is called quan jue, or execution by dogs… The entire process lasted for an hour, with Mr. Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader in North Korea, supervising it along with 300 senior officials.” –Straits Times

The timing of the news release is suspect; the incident reportedly happened on Dec. 12, and Western news outlets have just now started reporting on the story, but the fact that it was leaked out of Hong Kong media – and not the stringent, media-controlled Pyongyang itself – is cause for skepticism.

“The Straits Times is a respectable and widely read publication, but it's often been accused of being the mouthpiece of Singapore's ruling party and is staunchly anti-communist – so political bias is possible,” writes Tim Stanley from The Telegraph.

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